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On 11/4/2015 11:12 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 11/3/2015 7:10 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 18:23 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:If there's no mailserver configured, I'd like to see cygport save the mbox file in the current directory and give an informational message, rather than saving it in /tmp and giving an error message. Users might want to simply paste it into an email, and the error message seems a little unfriendly.First, I have already changed SMTP_SERVER to default to localhost, matching git's behaviour. (If it wasn't already painfully obvious, this is all modelled after git send-email.) Therefore, the error message now reflects an actual failure to send the message.The analogy with git explains my reaction. cygport announce strikes me as a combination of git format-patch and git send-email. In my own use of git, I've never bothered to configure git send-email. I just use git format-patch and paste it or attach it to an email. So I was expecting to use cygport announce the same way. And I can in fact use it the same way, but it tells me there's an error. That's OK. I'll try not to take it personally.
I went ahead and configured the SMTP_* variables in .cygport.conf, but I didn't want to put my password in that file. So I left SMTP_PASS unset. This resulted in the following:
Sending announcement of emacs-auctex-11.89-1 via smtp.cornell.edu unable to set username and password at /dev/fd/63 line 30.*** ERROR: Sending announcement failed, mbox is /tmp/cygwin-announce-emacs-auctex-11.89-1.12cyxI
I suggest that cygport prompt the user for a password in this situation, the way git send-email does.
Ken
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